Post by Ineedanewname on Aug 21, 2004 15:23:31 GMT
Daily Telegraph
The Kids Are Alright
Sanctuary Visual Entertainment, DVD, 2 discs, £19.99
Although the Who's recent history has been less auspicious, with bassist John "The Ox" Entwistle's sad passing and guitarist Pete Townshend's ill-advised web searches, here's a package to reaffirm the band's supremacy in any lapsed mod's eyes. First cinematically released in 1979, The Kids Are Alright is an exemplary rock movie, packed with exhaustingly kinetic performances of their best songs – in full – very often culminating in typically savage destruction of their equipment.
Director Jeff Stein simply aimed to represent the Who's blokey, wild-eyed nastiness (rather than over-analyse it, as most "rock docs" would today), and these clips are randomly glued together by TV interviews with Russell Harty (whom they terrorise), a young Jeremy Paxman and an inebriated Ringo Starr, plus some specially filmed off-duty scenes, such as Entwistle nonchalantly firing gold discs into the air like clay pigeons and machine-gunning them.
Bonus-disc snippets show you how heroically the movie was restored for DVD release, though more re-watchable is the Ox Cam, which allows you to see and hear only the inscrutable bassist during renditions of Won't Get Fooled Again and Baba O'Reilly. Quite something. Andrew Perry
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The Kids Are Alright
Sanctuary Visual Entertainment, DVD, 2 discs, £19.99
Although the Who's recent history has been less auspicious, with bassist John "The Ox" Entwistle's sad passing and guitarist Pete Townshend's ill-advised web searches, here's a package to reaffirm the band's supremacy in any lapsed mod's eyes. First cinematically released in 1979, The Kids Are Alright is an exemplary rock movie, packed with exhaustingly kinetic performances of their best songs – in full – very often culminating in typically savage destruction of their equipment.
Director Jeff Stein simply aimed to represent the Who's blokey, wild-eyed nastiness (rather than over-analyse it, as most "rock docs" would today), and these clips are randomly glued together by TV interviews with Russell Harty (whom they terrorise), a young Jeremy Paxman and an inebriated Ringo Starr, plus some specially filmed off-duty scenes, such as Entwistle nonchalantly firing gold discs into the air like clay pigeons and machine-gunning them.
Bonus-disc snippets show you how heroically the movie was restored for DVD release, though more re-watchable is the Ox Cam, which allows you to see and hear only the inscrutable bassist during renditions of Won't Get Fooled Again and Baba O'Reilly. Quite something. Andrew Perry
www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2004/05/03/bfdvd03.xml&sSheet=/arts/2004/05/03/ixartleft.html#3